The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-04-30
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Canaoi God who FIRST gave Ifs 10
MASTER give resurrection 10 a body
from uhiahliie hsihdeparted7--Ath@a-
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onght % lore life; We ought 20
waas 10 lfxa here So long as (sad or
dams z bnt ist is not 50 encase onr-
aeleaa "a limo Tint We cannot break
tie crast and begin TO throw ont
sh0at for tle ether life eccAsr
Reopie WAC complain Of tho press
are upon llisif purses for religious and
benevolent objects should remember
ikal all given for these purposes is a
mere pitfanse compared with what is
spent for amnsements and sensuons
pleasures
Jalnshid was the first person who
put CD adgina round bis garment and
ring apon bis finger. They asked
him, sWhy did You bestow all the
decoration and ornament on the left
hand, while the right Is the snperior2p
lie answered, aSnfiicient for the right
Il Il The ornament Of being right p
Sad.
Society Is held together by tho mu-
tual forbeaFanee Gifts members. Did
each one assert his rights by physical
force, instead Of mutual forbearnce and
consideration for the rights Of others,
cities, towns and neighborlsoods wonid
be Representatives,, since peace could
only be procured by widely separating
the sontending factions
Only God can blot ont onr iniqui-
tics a poor creature may soon in
vofge itself 10 sin and misery, but Ills
beyond the sphere of men or angels
activity TO blot ont the least sin, or
diseniaagle the soul Of the least cor
ruption. The mighty hand of God
himself must be put to the blotting
ont Of iniquities,---gulperso
The religion Of some people is con
strained they are like people who use
the cold bath, not for pleasure, but
necessity, for health; they 90 in with
reluctance, and they are glad when
they 60 out; but religion to a true be-
lever Is like water to fish; ii is his
element; seemingly Ills native element;
he lives IN It, and could not live out
Of it.--Rev. Jobn Merton.
Tie oldest person in France, perhaps
ii the world, IS said to be woman
who lives in the village Of Auberivet
10 Royans. She was born March 6,
1851, and is therefore 1876 years old.
The authentic record of her birth is
70 be found in the parish register Of
ST. Just de Claix IN the Department
Of the Isere.-- Scientific american.
Some clocks do not strike. You
must look At them if you want to know
The time Some men do not tdlk their
Christianity Won must look at their
lives If yon would know what the Cos
pei can do for human nature. But a
clock need not be incorrect because it
strikes; man need mot be inconsist-
emit because hespeaks as well SIS acts
An angel in the sepulchre is very
strange sight what doth an angel
there9 Indeed no angel ever came there
till this morning. Nottill Christ had
been there; but now He hath left there
odorsus uite, and changed the grave
into a place of rest, why not the bodies
in the grave TO be in heaven one day,
as well as The angels of heaven 10 be
in the grave this day Bishop IN
drst0es.
A painter cannot finish his picture
II he stands close to the canvas. He
walks back, stands of, and thus sees
the whole al once. Many q man whose
affairs we're in snarl has gone to sea,
and in few weeks has seen the whole
tangle, and in a few more has seen
how to get the tangle ont. If he had
staid he would have died in his net.
Stand back from your picture.-Dr.
Deems.
The love Of self is an inyeteFate
barbarian, and can not easily be tanned
IN truth, the main work OF civilization
for thousands Of years has been the
subjngation Of this native savage d
self love that perpetnally turks in ih,
wilderness Of the human breast; no
has the Gospel Of Christ, in a struggle
Of more than eighteen hundred years
been able 10 cast out this devil (whosi
name Is legion) from the human hear
excePt In Je0persons, for short peri
DDS Of time.
The Bible is a large book or small
one, dark Or a bright one, aceordin,
10 the spirit In which men read il
WrangleFs and frst-class men will no
understand IL unless their hegrts ar
right as well ae tlieir heads. The high
est critical and grammatical know
edge will find tia sealed book withou
The teaching Of the Holy Ghost. Ii
contents are often "hid 10 the wis
and prudent and revealed TO babies
Reader, remember this, and say FL
ways, when you open your Bible, &C
God. for Christ's sake, give me tht
teaching Of the Spirit n-Ryle.
Many are apt 10 imagine that re.
pentaDee Is nothing but concern and
sorrow for having done amiss. and
Trusting thai God for Christs sake,
will pardon them land too many place
repentance ID protesting to be sorry
for tlier sins, and promising not 10
repeat lheni and are satisfied with
this, without any serious endeayors Of
amendment. Most christians, loo,
imagine that repentance is ia their
Own power; Inst They can set about II
aoa nsFierm y when they please, and